Dunners

Cardboard swords slay selwyn’s hordes

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013 by Jack Montgomerie

Selwyn College’s residents flogged one of their favourite dead horses last Wednesday afternoon when they took over the Clocktower lawn for the annual Lindski Battle. A dozen ex-residents were pitted against more than 100 Selwyn “knights” and “nurses” in the annual pacifist skirmish. The Read more...

Dunedin – New Zealand’s Detroit

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013 by Jamie Breen

Students are to Dunedin what Instagram is to a tween: #important. Or, as the ODT wittily put it, Dunedin is New Zealand’s Detroit, if postgraduate and international student numbers are compared to car manufacturers: lose them and the economy loses, too. University of Otago lecturer Paul Read more...

Lama drama harms Cull’s karma

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013 by Jack Montgomerie

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has retracted what he calls a “dismissive and unnecessary slight” he made against the Dalai Lama, but still will not meet him when he visits Dunedin on 11 June. After describing the Lama as “the leader of a minority sect” last week, Cull now says that the community Read more...

World record attempts

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Otago University students are in the running to break 10 world records during Re-Orientation Week at an event organised by OUSA. Students who are interested in breaking records have submitted their record idea to OUSA, who have then gone on to co-ordinate with Guinness World Records. So far, Read more...

Too many cats hanging out at Murray’s

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013 by Josie Cochrane

At least six pet cats have been found dead, some hung from trees, at Navy Park in South Dunedin. The ongoing suspicious deaths have occurred since December 2012, with the latest cat being found on Saturday 27 April of this year. Senior Constable Ruth Parsons says, “We’ve had this sort of Read more...

The Wicked Witches of Union Street East

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Abby Howells (Left) and Caitlin McNaughton (Right) are directing 2013’s Wizard of Oz-themed Capping Show, which kicks off this Wednesday. Bella Macdonald interviewed them during one of their nightly rehearsals. What do you see as the purpose of the Capping Show? Caitlin: I guess it was Read more...

Shit students help students in the shit

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Josie Cochrane

Figures recently released by the University of Otago show that misconduct cost students $14,860 in 2012. This is up 40% from 2011, when total fines issued by the Proctor were $10,670 for the year. The increase has occurred despite a decrease in the number of misbehaving students from 136 in 2011 to Read more...

Apps to make sad kids ‘appy

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Jack Montgomerie

A texting blob, a digital bin in which to put feelings, and a site full of videos to cheer kids up won the Dunedin round of the Lifehack competition last Sunday evening. Lifehack (not to be confused with the website explaining how to “Make Your Own Fresh Home Fragrances”) is an organisation that the Read more...

Critic culls Cull

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Zane Pocock

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has refused to partake in a debate with legal high lobbyist Grant Hall after calling for consumers to boycott businesses that sell synthetic cannabis products. While defending his position, Cull alluded to a fear that his opponent-to-be had been “imbibing a bit much,” in a Read more...

Selwyn Ballet to thrill audiences for 86th year running

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Callum Fredric

Capping Show audiences are once again set for five minutes of top-quality entertainment at the end of the first half of the show, as the Selwyn Ballet makes its 86th appearance. The ballet’s distinctive humour comes from the visual juxtaposition between short-haired, rugby-loving young men Read more...